Posted: 2:55 PM At least 40 people were killed in Friday's violence. Activists say they showed U.N. monitors burned houses and victims' graves. China condemns the violence in strong terms.

Posted: 1:16 PM Taliban fighters blew a hole in the side of a prison in northern Afghanistan Thursday night, allowing 31 inmates to escape.

Posted: 1:03 PM Authorities found the mutilated remains of 14 people inside a truck parked in front of a city government office in northern Mexico Thursday, according to the Attorney General of the State of Tamaulipas.

Posted: 11:48 AM Syrian opposition activists tell CBS News a nine-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head by a sniper as he took part in a small protest against President Bashar Assad's government in the southern city of Daraa on Friday.

Posted: 9:49 AM British Prime Minister David Cameron is one of several high-profile current and former government figures who will be grilled next week at an independent inquiry into media ethics, it was reported Friday.

Posted: 9:48 AM A bus explosion killed 16 people and injured dozens in northwest Pakistan on Friday, authorities said.

Posted: 9:47 AM The United States is offering millions of dollars for the whereabouts of seven key members of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group behind bombings and attacks in the region.

Posted: 9:46 AM The United States is offering millions of dollars for the whereabouts of seven key members of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group behind bombings and attacks in the region.

Posted: 9:44 AM British Prime Minister David Cameron is one of several high-profile current and former government figures who will be grilled next week at an independent inquiry into media ethics, it was reported Friday.

Posted: 9:43 AM The chief of South Korea's biggest Buddhist order says he will hand over a temple's financial management to experts after monks were caught gambling illegally.

Posted: 9:41 AM China's President Hu Jintao urged Iran to take a "flexible and pragmatic" approach as it enters talks on its nuclear program Friday with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna, China's foreign ministry said.

Posted: 9:40 AM Los Angeles police are looking into a possible connection between a Canadian porn actor suspected in the mutilation of a university student and the killing of a California man who was also dismembered in the same grisly manner.

Posted: 9:39 AM A man has confessed to planting a bomb that killed a 16-year-old girl and injured five other people outside a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, investigators in Italy said.

Posted: 11:12 PM The Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer mission, or GEMS for short, was supposed to blast off in 2014 to study black holes and neutron stars. But external reviews found the project would likely come in considerably over budget.

Posted: 11:04 PM The Federal Reserve on Thursday proposed tough new rules to require banks to hold even more in reserves as a capital buffer to better withstand future financial crises.

Posted: 10:54 PM A British woman on a solo round-the-world trip has been hit by a tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean and is being picked up by the Japanese Coast Guard, her team said Thursday.

Posted: 9:55 PM Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, is busy on campaign stops in hopes of healing a drug-war torn nation.

Posted: 6:12 PM A day after claiming that Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov had broken the world record for highest base jump, Red Bull, the jumper's sponsor, has reversed course and is now calling the jump another "highlight in Rozov's incredible career."

Updated: 5:51 PM Hong Kong art collector Alan Lo and his father share a love for Chinese art. The younger Lo buys modern Chinese art; his dad owns an important collection of traditional Chinese ink drawings. In the past, they've sold some of their pieces at auction without much drama. However, there was one particularly frustrating transaction.

Posted: 5:47 PM Bahrain's ambassador to France has been accused of sexually assaulting a former employee and is under investigation by prosecutors, authorities in France said Thursday.

Posted: 5:23 PM Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned a NATO airstrike this week that a provincial official says killed women and children, in a statement that came just as U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived Thursday in Kabul for talks.

Posted: 5:17 PM Israel announced it will construct 851 housing units in the West Bank, a move the United States immediately said "undermines peace efforts."

Updated: 4:45 PM The constant battle for Internet security saw another brazen attack this week as Russian hackers published millions of passwords they collected after hacking the professional-networking site LinkedIn.

Posted: 1:00 PM The discovery of the graves of suspected vampires in Bulgaria may turn into a tourism gold mine, according to local news reports.

Updated: 12:55 AM The social-networking company wants to be universally known by a new streamlined bird logo, replacing the scruffier bird that had symbolized Twitter since ... well, way back in 2010.